#4123394 - 05/22/15 03:19 PM
Re: Witcher 3 Screenshots Thread
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He was just trying to cook a damned ham for dinner you jerk.
What difficulty are you guys playing on? I'm using Blood and Broken Bones (hard) and it's pretty much the perfect balance to me. You need to think and dodge during battles since you die relatively quickly, but it's not stupid difficult to the point of feeling unfair at all. There will be no cooking on my watch! On the second difficulty level, forgot its name. While I do enjoy the occasional challenge, nothing kills my gaming mood faster than being stuck on something forever or having to start over multiple times. Plus, Witcher games can provide a solid challenge even at this level, especially when meeting packs. RPGs I mostly want to soak up the atmosphere and immerse myself.
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#4123408 - 05/22/15 03:42 PM
Re: Witcher 3 Screenshots Thread
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That is one of the few things that irks me about RPGs where you play a set character (as opposed to build your own from scratch). You are supposed to be this awesome powerful Witcher, but you start at level one with so-so equipment and armor, no resources, no materials, no money, and level 10 creatures kick your butt like if you were any other peasant. A game mechanic, I know, but still, you do not really represent the character they say you are (until the later stages of the game). Maybe that would be different for those that imported their character from Witcher 2? Anyway, I am pleasantly surprised on how well this runs on my 2 year old AMD card, with 5 year old everything else. I have all settings on Ultra, no AA and with HairWorks disabled, and it runs smooth as butter downsampled to 1440p. EDIT: I guess since screenshot thread, I should post a couple:
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#4123474 - 05/22/15 06:17 PM
Re: Witcher 3 Screenshots Thread
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So happy this turned out as awesome as it did. It just shows that some studios can still deliver the goods.
CD Projekt Red are also sitting on Cyberpunk and after what they've achieved here I can't wait for that.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
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#4123622 - 05/23/15 12:52 AM
Re: Witcher 3 Screenshots Thread
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I'm playing on medium which is just under the broken bones one. Its plenty difficult for me on that setting. I had an awesome sword fight with some bandits on the road. It took me a few times after a few deaths but I finally bested them. I love the combat in this. It took the layered strategy from the first and the better controls and flow of the second and put them together. You have to think about what you are doing. I finally cut the last guy in half and his legs walked then topple over. Creepy when I saw that. And I was glad to see the physics are still in place. I was worried in seeing that ragdolls were removed but the way they programmed it works nicely. You can still see PhysX at work in the corpses if you walk through them and they jiggle a bit. I'll eventually get this on pc. Also the land area are huge and full of nooks and krannies.
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#4123985 - 05/23/15 10:03 PM
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"Also met the love of my life. She's a stunner." Well, hell! With a tongue like that I can see why. Really, though, this looks nice. It's not the kind of thing I play but maybe it's time for something new. I have a 60 dollar gift card to spend at Steam. Was going to get Assasin's Creed: Rogue, because I loved the sea battles in Black Flag. Rogue has more of that. But now, I don't know.
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#4124235 - 05/24/15 04:00 PM
Re: Witcher 3 Screenshots Thread
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Great shots!
The sunsets make you want to throw down your sword and take up a peasant's life.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
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#4124497 - 05/25/15 07:26 AM
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Yeah, and as someone mentioned already: The wind, leaves, wildlife. Also his little comments here and there as you move around that seem to mirror what's going through your own mind. Really a new level of immersion.
The cruel downside is that when something does behave like a mere mortal RPG, e.g. some character gives the same answer twice to a prompt, it's almost jarring.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
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#4124749 - 05/25/15 08:34 PM
Re: Witcher 3 Screenshots Thread
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Does anyone know of any tweaks for Nvidia hairworks in the game? I can't find any tweaks for NVidia gpu owners just AMD. Farcry 4 uses this technology and it doesn't hurt my fps. In W3 its the difference between butter smooth frames and chop. I can live without it but if there's a tweak out there I'd like to find it. They just released patch 1.04 that tweaked it further. But you can't do much other than set it to Geralt only, which shouldn't have such a large impact and then possibly set it from 8x AA down to 4x AA (how-to listed in OP).
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#4124758 - 05/25/15 08:43 PM
Re: Witcher 3 Screenshots Thread
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Someone on PC imported their saves from W2? I heard about this function a while ago but so far not if it works... Yeah, ran through Witcher 2 on the day of Witcher 3's release, so I could import a save.
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